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title: The Duchess Maria died a few months after her rival, and nothing was… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Duchess Maria died a few months after her rival, and nothing was ever known of the well-guarded secret, until Henry himself betrayed it in his partiality for his favourite son Eitel Henry--Eva's only son and eldest child. Who acts: Duchess Maria, Henry, Eva. A sentence of «Legends and tales of t
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 150

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The Duchess Maria died a few months after her rival, and nothing was ever known of the well-guarded secret, until Henry himself betrayed it in his partiality for his favourite son Eitel Henry--Eva's only son and eldest child.

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**Who acts:** Duchess Maria, Henry, Eva · **What happens:** die, know, guard, betray, be · **To what, where:** nothing, secret, partiality, son

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duchess Maria, Henry, Eva), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:20:150
# text = The Duchess Maria died a few months after her rival, and nothing was ever known of the well-guarded secret, until Henry himself betrayed it in his partiality for his favourite son Eitel Henry--Eva's only son and eldest child.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Maria	Maria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	25	nmod:unmarked	_	_
27	betrayed	betray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	partiality	partiality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	Eitel	Eitel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
37	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	only	only	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	45	amod	_	_
45	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the Duchess Maria |  |  |  | after Maria's rival; month |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **know** | past · passive |  | nothing |  |  | ever | of the guarded secret | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **guard** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **betray** | past | Henry  Henry | secret |  | Henry's partiality for Henry's favourite son |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | Eva | son and eldest child |  |  |  | eldest child *conj* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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